Father of Twins Stolen Sperm

Father
of twins stolen sperm, A Houston man has launched a unique court
battle, claiming his twin sons resulted from his sperm being stolen and
taken to a Houston fertility clinic without his knowledge, Local 2
Investigates reported Tuesday.
"Actually, I couldn't believe it could be done. I was very, very
devastated," said Joe Pressil, a 36-year-old telecommunications manager.

"I couldn't believe that this fertility clinic could actually do this
without my consent, or without my even being there," he said.

Pressil said he hadn't considered having a family, and his religious
beliefs would never allow him to visit a fertility clinic or participate
in any form of artificial insemination. Yet three months after he broke
up with his girlfriend, she became pregnant with his sperm at the
Advanced Fertility Center of Texas on the Katy Freeway near Beltway 8.

In his lawsuit, Pressil said he found out about the plot when a receipt arrived in the mail, listing him as the patient.

"Pressil was listed as the 'patient' on the receipt even though he had
never been to (the clinic) nor ever sought treatment for male
infertility," according to his lawsuit.

His ex-girlfriend gave birth to twin boys and then sued him for child
support. She was granted that child support after blood tests confirmed
Pressil was the father.

"That's a violation of myself, to what I believe in, to my religion, and just to my manhood," Pressil said.

Pressil said his ex-girlfriend always claimed she was unable to have
children due to a medical condition involving fibroids. He also said she
claimed that her condition required a certain sort of condom be used
during sex. Now, in hindsight, he said that seems suspicious.

"I did notice a little bit because she would take the condom and ask me
to discard it. And usually, a male would discard their own property, but
she would always take the condom and she would run off out of the room
and I just didn't think anything of it. And I didn't think that anyone
could use a condom and bring it to a clinic to get an in vitro," he
said.

Pressil's attorney, Jason Gibson says this is particularly terrifying
for a man, especially if he's not planning to have a family.

"It's not what you're thinking when you're in a relationship. That's not
what most people are thinking, that their partner is going to get a
special condom, use that condom as soon as you're done having sex, run
off to the fertility clinic to go have an IVF procedure. That's
certainly not what my client was thinking," Gibson said.

An attorney representing the Advanced Fertility Center and Omni-Med
Laboratories, Danny Sheena, called the lawsuit "suspect" and
"disingenuous."

He admitted that some men simply don't like visiting fertility clinics,
so some samples are delivered to the clinic without the man being there.
He said, in this case, the specimen arrived in a cup that was sealed in
a bag.

Sheena said the father had blood work performed and submitted to the
clinic around the same time as the in vitro procedure. He also said the
clinic has signed consent forms and information sheets from the father.

"That's the procedure of the clinic. Those procedures were followed and
we did obtain a consent from the donor as well as his blood sample."

Sheena said he couldn't say for certain whether the father had ever
actually been to the clinic and it's possible that the forms could have
been fabricated by the mother.

He also pointed out that numerous procedures, including the successful
in vitro fertilization which resulted in the twins, were all billed to
the health insurance of the father.

"We do know that we do have his blood work, we do know that his
insurance was billed for it, and we do know that his credit card was
used to pay for [some of] the visits," Sheena said.

Pressil admitted he allowed his then-girlfriend to sign onto his health
insurance as 'domestic partners' when they were dating, but he said he
thought his insurance was being billed for treatment of the fibroid
condition.

Gibson said the fertility clinic simply took the ex-girlfriend's word
for it, and allowed her to bring in semen without the man's permission.

"I hope that an indirect result of this lawsuit will be that these 'one
stop baby shop' type places that will take your money and get you
pregnant without the male's consent will take note and perhaps change
the way they do business in the future," Gibson said.

The ex-girlfriend is not being sued, but she is named in the court
documents. Her attorney, Derek Deyon, told Local 2 Investigates that the
lawsuit is a scam by Pressil to avoid paying child support.

"That's exactly what this is about," said Deyon, who said his client
denies ever taking semen from a used condom for the in vitro procedure.

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